Health Insurance
Health insurance news and analysis, with coverage of general health insurance trends, major medical insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, vision plans, telemedicine plans, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term health insurance, the Affordable Care Act public exchange program, and more.
Witness: Delegating Health Cost Crisis Won't Help
By Allison BellLen Nichols says saddling private organizations with skyrocketing medical claims and inflexible rules is a bad idea.
February 28, 2012
Insurers Open Stores To Peddle Health Plans (Kaiser Health News)With individual coverage expected to grow, companies are opening retail sites to make plan shopping and use as easy as buying a TV.
February 28, 2012
Health Care History: How the Patchwork Coverage Came To Be (L.A. Times)A shipyard's need for healthy workers, World War II wage freezes and attempts by the government to expand healthcare coverage led to our unique patchwork of coverage.
February 28, 2012
Alzheimer's Disease: The Draft National Plan, Part ICongress declared war on dementia. Now HHS is deciding how to fight that mysterious enemy.
February 28, 2012
McKnight's LTC News Founder DiesBill McKnight founded the long-term care publication in 1981 as Today's Nursing Home.
February 28, 2012
AALTCI Prepares May Ad CampaignPrudential and John Hancock will help pay to run an advertorial in Kiplinger's Personal Finance.
February 28, 2012
Connecticut Considers LTCI Deduction BillS.B. 178 would keep long-term care insurance premiums out of state income tax calculations.
February 28, 2012
Top 10 Hot Topics for the Upcoming NAIC Conference in NOLAInsurance regulatory policy takes shape in the Big Easy this week, and here are things to look for, from ORSA manual and model law development so the U.S. system can meet international solvency and scrutiny standards to that pesky AG 38 issue. Don't get lost!